Hair foundation



.Aug. 27, 1946. w. HUPPERT HAIR FOUNDATION Filed Feb. 15; 1945 AUUAWEK Patented Aug. 27, 1946 HAIR FOUNDATION William Huppert, New York, N. Y., assignor to Delamere Company, Inc., a corporation of Delaware Application February 15, 1945, Serial N 0. 577,972

3 Claims.

This invention relates to hair devices, more 7 particularly to improvements in hair devices of the class known as foundations or rats used by women in dressing their hair in the form of rolls, chignons, and the like.

Some devices of this class have loops or eyelets at their ends for receiving hair pins whereby they are fastened to the hair before the hair is dressed and supported thereon.

The devices are customarily worn on the back or side of the head. This makes it rather dinicult for the wearer properly and conveniently to locate the loops or eyelets through which the pins are to be thrust. Moreover, such devices after they are applied to the hair are likely to slip out of place while the hair is being dressed thereon due to the fact that they are not securely anchored to the hair.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a device of this class with means whereby it can be easily fastened to the hair with the use of hairpin or the like, and securely anchored in place.

I attain this object, among others, by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the back of .a woman's head showing the device pinned to the hair;

Figure 2 is a side View of the device;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of, an end of the device pinned to the hair; and

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

stance such, for instance, as sponge rubber.-

Moreover, the casing and stuffing may be of any desired color.

According to the preferred embodiment of the present improvement I provide each end H of the roll with a tab I4 for securely fastening the ends of the roll to the hair I5 by means of hairpins 6 or the like.

The tabs M are each preferably made of a rectangular piece of openwork material, such as netting or gauze, either of single or double ply, although they may be of other shapes or of other fabric that can be easily penetrated by a hairpin or the like without tearing.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, a portion ll of the tab is inserted into a slit or opening in the end of the roll and is fastened by being tied with thread or yarn [8, or in any other suitable manner.

In use, the roll is fastened to the hair by one or more hairpins that penetrate each of the tabs, the pins passing from one surface under the other and then out again, as indicated in Fig. 4. The pin shown in that illustration is of the bobby or spring type, in which case preferably only one leg passes through the tab. However, where 'hairpins of the ordinary type are used both legs will generally pass through the tab. It will be seen that the pin not only engages the hair but that it also binds or clamps strands of the hair to the tab and thus securely and firmly anchors the roll to the hair so that it cannot move or slip out of place while the hair is subsequently being dressed on the roll.

What I claim is:

1. A hair device comprising a foundation of substantially cylindrical form on which hair may be dressed and supported, said foundation having a flexible netted fabric tab at each end through which pins can penetrate at any point into engagement with the hair to anchor the device in place.

2. A hair device comprising a foundation of substantially cylindrical form on which hair may be dressed and supported, said foundation having an anchoring tab of openwork texture protruding outwardly from each end thereof.

3. A hair foundation comprising a flexible tubular casing stuffed with fibrous substance on which hair may be supported in roll form, a tab of openwork fabric at each end of the casing, each tab having a portion extending into the casing and a portion projecting outwardly from the casing, and means for binding the tabs to the casing.

, WILLIAM HUPPERT. 

